Pole: Cole Custer (00)
Outside pole: John Hunter ‘JHN’ Nemechek (20)
Stages: 60-60-130
Weather: Fair, 69 degrees, 2 mph wind with gusts of 6 mphCaution lap 86 of 250 for Kaden Honeycutt (74) blowing up. He stopped against the outside wall and quickly exited the burning, smoking car.
Caution on lap 133 of 250 for a crash involving Joe Graf Jr (38) and Ryan Ellis (43). Joe Graf Jr (38) slammed nose first into the wall collecting Ryan Ellis (43).
The television broadcast is showing very little of the good racing MRN is calling. They’re spending too much time with the gimmick camera shots instead completely eliminating the excitement generated by the race battles we get a glimpse of.
Caution on lap 162 of 250 for Josh Williams (92) losing a left rear tire, then getting up into the marbles and going around.
Caution on lap 209 of 250 for Jeremy Clements (51) visiting the wall.
MRN reports the small fire under the right front corner of Jeremy Clements’ car has gotten bigger and he returned to pit road. MRN reports they thought Jeremy’s car was out and it’s not as he heads to the garage with it.
Justin Allgaier (7) and Alex Labbe (91) stay out during that pit sequence. The cars that pitted line up behind them.
As the action heats up on the track, a lap or two after the restart, we’re stuck looking at a hood and a bumper and the side of some cars. Horrible video.
I wish I could watch the exciting racing
Caution on lap 220 of 250 for an incident involving Sam Mayer (1), Riley Herbst (98). Sam Mayer (1) got turned by Ryan Truex (19) sending Mayer up into Riley Herbst who went for a spin to the outside wall.
During his television interview Sam Mayer (1) said “[I can’t say anything bad about JGR drivers so [I’ll] just keep it to [myself] and move on to next week.” How strange. Adam Alexander thinks it might be due to the fight on pit road Sam had with Ty Gibbs last season.
TV can’t manage to show the racing action, but they spend time showing some girl holding a baby chewing her fingernails. The person deciding on the camera shots needs to get a job on a children’s and/or family show.
White flag.
John Hunter ‘JHN’ Nemechek (20) wins.
He set the car on fire with his burnout, literally. The safety team finally caught him with the fire extinguishers to put out the fire. He didn’t seem to know he’d set the car on fire.
MRN says it was a really good race tonight. I wish those of us watching the FS1 broadcast would’ve had a chance to actually see the good race.
What we saw was boring and unwatchable most of the time as we were stuck with dumb shots of hoods and bumpers and of JHN’s woman and child. The thing we didn’t see very often was great video of good racing.
MRN’s Kim Coon said JHN led almost 200 laps, so it wasn’t really competitive. Occasionally someone else would get the lead, but wouldn’t keep it long. The FS1 television broadcast of the Martinsville Xfinity Series race was not worth watching. It seemed intense. It was not exciting on television, though MRN seemed to be calling an exciting race.
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